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Key Elements of Clinical Communication After Inpatient Acute Kidney Injury: Modified Delphi Study From the AKINow Recovery Workgroup

Key takeaways

After a sudden drop in kidney function in the hospital (acute kidney injury), care can fall through the cracks once patients go home. A panel of experts agreed on the key facts that hospital teams should pass on to a patient's regular doctors. This was a consensus effort to set standards, so it did not measure whether it improves health yet.

Source

Paper · AJKD · 2026-08-10
https://www.ajkd.org/article/S0272-6386(26)01047-4/fulltext?rss=yes